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That's awesome! It's a nice piece of decoration, I just couldn't tell if it was real wood or not. I'm sure the shrimp will be happy in there!

You should be able to transfer them, and the macro algae, fine as long as the target tank's parameters aren't significantly different. Make sure you have the correct brackish salt level. That looks like real driftwood in the larger cube, if it is, it should go. Driftwood will leech out all kinds of ...

So sorry to hear about shrimpie. In the future, yea, one of the better ways to put down a sick aquatic is to put them in the freezer. 11 years is a solid run, and I can imagine how you'd feel, even if it's "just" a little invertebrate. I truly feel for you. If you're not too put off by it,...

Question: Macroalgae grew and changed overtime, should it take it out and get a new one? Not sure what that means except maybe "the macroalgae has grown like a weed"? It's safe to remove some, it'll grow back, just be careful of hitchhiking shrimp or snails on what you remove. If you mean...

Salt doesn't evaporate. As the water evaporates, the salt in the water remains the same amount, which increases the percentage of salt to water, i.e. the salinity goes up a little. When you add more RO water, there is no salt in it, which will then reduce the percentage of salt to water, i.e. the sa...

Do you have a link to the jar? I don't know what the forum policy is on sending people to places they might buy stuff, but that is a lovely little combo.

Do be aware that mangroves are trees that live under full sun and not little aquarium plants. They may grow out-of-hand rather quickly.

It looks neat! What kind of light is it that it attaches to the top of the jar like that? Custom or did you find a set somewhere? I'd love to have one of those!

Is that decoration resin or plastic or actual wood? Resin/plastic should be ok, but if it's driftwood or some other kind of real wood, and depending on what the green stuff is that's on it, it's gonna get funky and leak out tannins that will change your water chemistry and is probably not something ...

Make sure it's truly R/O and not "softened" or some other kind of resin filter. If you're sure it's R/O then yep, it's good to go.

Unfortunately, too little data to really say. Where did the water come from initially? If it was distilled water with salt added, you're probably just seeing bits of salt and/or biological fluff floating about. If they don't move in little jerky doots, they're probably not copepods, which would be h...

I've had guppies before, aside from them not being brackish fish and likely would quickly die, they are surprisingly vicious and would probably destroy your shrimp before they inevitably died.

Yeah, that one is definitely a mutation. It's not the same mutation as our orange or neon-yellow ones. I isolated a white mutation also, but my white mutation has snow-white eggs, they look like snowballs. I'm in the process of building a colony as we speak. Holy cow, color me excited! (Pun intende...

Looks like an "albino" or "leucistic" form. I don't know much about that trait in shrimp, but in other animals and plants you can get a mutation that prevents the gene for red color generation from working. "Albino" and "leucistic" are different mutations, &qu...

Very nice jar and glad to see you finally got your weird cloud layer thing worked out! The only thing I would say is that, going with something Mustafa said to me with a similar photo, that chaeto could probably be reduced by a good 80% to give algae and other biofilm to build up for everyone. As he...